About Quote by Mark McKinnon

When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to take into…

— Raghuram Rajan

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in…

— Phil Bredesen

It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would…

— Craig L. Thomas

Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average rate of…

— John Cornyn

Whenever people in Washington complain about spending cuts, they mean spending cuts that would affect defense contractors. They want to massively increase spending cuts…

— Cenk Uygur

Addressing budget issues is usually a balancing act in which cuts are weighed against revenue increases to find the best solution for the state.

— Kevin de Leon

One truism of federal budgeting is that growing deficits force difficult spending decisions, and when they do, programs to help the poor are usually…

— Brian Deese

The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.

— P. J. O'Rourke

If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more…

— James M. Buchanan

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

— Larry Elder

The budget stays the same but the salary increases. That is the problem because there is a natural progression of increase.

— Bill Wilson

Cutting the fiscal deficit is not popular. That is the experience of all governments in all countries. Expenditure cuts hurt certain vested interests, and…

— Manmohan Singh